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Philip I (23 May 1052 - 29 July 1108), called the enormous or the Fat, w a s K i n g o f France from 1060 to his death. His reign, like that of most o f t h e e a r ly Direct Capetians, was extraordinarily long for the time. Th e m o n a r chy began a modest recovery from the low it reached in the reign o f h i s f a t her and he added to the royal demesne The Vexin and Bourges. P hi l i p w a s the son of Henry I and Anne of Kiev . His name was of Greek o r i g i n , being derived from Philippos, meaning "lover of horses". It was r a t h e r e xotic for Western Europe at the time and was bestowed upon him b y h i s E a s tern European mother. Although he was crowned king at the age o f s e v e n , until age fourteen (1066) his mother acted as regent, the firs t q u e e n o f France ever to do so. Her co-regent was Baldwin V of Flander s. P h i l i p first married Bertha, daughter of Floris I, Count of Holland, i n 1 0 7 2 . A lthough the marriage produced the necessary heir, Philip fell i n l o v e w i th Bertrade de Montfort, the wife of Count Fulk IV of Anjou. H e r e p u d iated Bertha (claiming she was too fat) and married Bertrade on 1 5 M a y 1 0 9 2. In 1094, he was excommunicated by Hugh, Archbishop of Lyon, f o r t h e f i rst time; after a long silence, Pope Urban II repeated the exc o m m u n ication at the Council of Clermont in November 1095. Several times t h e b a n w a s lifted as Philip promised to part with Bertrade, but he alwa y s r e t u rned to her, and after 1104, the ban was not repeated. In France , t h e k i n g was opposed by Bishop Ivo of Chartres, a famous jurist. Phil ip a p p o i nted Alberic first Constable of France in 1060. A great part of h i s r e i g n, like his father's, was spent putting down revolts by his powe r - h u n gry vassals. In 1077, he made peace with William the Conqueror, wh o g a v e u p a ttempting the conquest of Brittany. In 1082, Philip I expand ed h i s d e m esne with the annexation of the Vexin. Then in 1100, he took c on t r o l o f Bourges.
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Abt 1052 - 1108 (56 years)
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